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...undergo economic crises than Britain, whose sterling is the world's second reserve currency after the dollar. Sterling is thus held temporarily by persons all over the world because of the ease with which it can be used in banking and trading-and many of them tend to unload it as quickly as possible when it seems to be threatened by economic difficulties. Since Britain buys so much more than it sells, three-quarters of its sterling reserves are in foreign hands, a fact that straps the British economy into a straitjacket. The only way out of the jacket...
...Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted on doctrinaire legislation such as renationalization of steel, hinted at new, incentive-stifling corporate and capital-gains taxes. Convinced that Britain's financial position could only worsen, international bankers scrambled to unload their sterling holdings...
Since the Coop's original plans contained no provision for off-street loading faculties, delivery trucks would have had to stop in the middle of Palmer St. to unload. The present loading situation, which is barely tolerable, would thus have gotten worse; Palmer St., in effect, would have become an unpleasant little alley permanently filled with trucks...
...major labor disputes. The fact was all the more remarkable because the disputes were not over bread-and-butter issues of pay or pensions, but over such questions as whether auto workers should smoke on the job and how many longshoremen should be available on the docks to unload arriving ships...
Grand Design. But for a man whose fiction has already put him in the 87% income tax bracket, there are more compelling rewards. "I do like to unload," O'Hara said. "I am a man of many interests. Every day when I read the papers I want to comment on something. If there's any grand design to my work, it has been to put down my time to the best of my ability, so that I will be as indispensable to historians of the future as Dickens is to the historians of the 19th century...